Yobo's proctracted transfer

Interesting to see on the BBC website that Fenerbahce president Aziz Yildirim is being held on match-fixing allegations. One match under invetigation is the final match of the season against Sivasspor where Fenerbahce won 4-3, and our own Joey scored the winning goal. Perhaps this is causing a delay in the transfer? Philip Jones,
Anglesey Posted 03/07/2011 at 18:44:57

Look here, lads and lasses, as far as transfers go, what will happen will and what won't won't... and there's not a damn thing you or I can do about it.

Corruption gossip about Fenerbahce's and Brum's Presidents plus half the top tier Greek clubs and the Korean and others in all parts of the world, not to mention FIFA itself being the most corrupt of all, makes me glad that Everton is safe with dear old Billy and saint-like Davey in charge.

Just go to the BBC premier league page and look under Everton...The story showing is, "Everton captain Phil Neville intends to carry on playing and look under Everton." All the latest news dated Friday, 10 June 2011 14:58 UK.

What is happening to our club when we are about as newsworthy as a dog biting a man!

We set a price and if they didn't honour it despite his goal winning them the title you fuck them off and put him up for sale to anyone willing to meet a certain fee - or you do a Billy Bullshitter, he's probably looking for the money to pay them to take him off our hands

Spot on Eric, the Echo was claiming that there are other clubs interested in Yobo so let's see what price we can get from one of them. Who cares if Yobo wants to go to Fenerbache? We're skint and someone should say to Yobo that they obviously don't value him that highly if they're only offering 3 million for him! They've just won the league and must have some money from Champions League qualification! It would be interesting to see if they'd win the league if they didn't pay the money for Yobo!

Imagine if one of their players wanted to come to us and we put in a derisory offer like that, we'd have no chance!

It would not surprise me one bit if we still own both Yobo and Yakubu when the season starts and more likely, right up until the transfer deadline. Anyone serious about signing them will know that we don't have a pot to piss in and, the closer it gets to the deadline day, the more desperate we will be for money to balance the books for the next year. This will allow teams to lodge insulting bids, bids that will be wrapped up under the "undisclosed" banner. £4 million for the pair, not the £6 million for Yobo and £4 million for Yakubu that we could and should have got if we weren't a clown show.

Peter, #15 ? Totally agree, mate, there is no interest in the Yak and the Turks are refusing to honour a deal and people are shocked! Remember the reason Kevin Campbell signed permanently for us was that his president at his Turkish club called him a black animal!

Every man and his dog knows we're up shit creek, so don't be surprised if/when Rodwell goes, he goes for about £10 million on 31 August at 1 minute to the deadline. Then DM and BK will come out with the usual shite that Pele and Franz Beckanbaur were about to sign for £30 mil each but we end up with Jedward instead!

Don't bother looking for new signings ? there won't be any, just be grateful if we can keep our current players. That unfortunately means Yak and Yobo too as we need every swinging dick we can muster, as they say in the army!

No squad numbers for Yobo or Yak on official website when you order the new home kit. Shows everyone who maybe interested that we don't want them at Goodison, in my opinion, and so why rush to sign them when you know they will be £1m cheaper in a few weeks at the very least...

Call me old fashioned but I believe that if Everton are paying their wages then they should be given a squad number and treated as an Everton player.Yak didn't want to go out on loan but, when he was treated like he was, he felt he had no choice. He was great against Liverpool and a fit Yak is an asset.

As for Yobo, I just don't get where the apparent attitude is coming from with him. Why I still check the transfer gossip on the BBC each day is a mystery to me. I just hope we can pull of just one top player and keep Baines at all costs...

As a European, Eric, I suppose it might seem odd that Americans should latch onto a term for football that dates back to the 19th century & is English in origin. The term was originally a slang term to quickly & easily differentiate between Association Football & Rugby Football ? hence 'soccer' & 'rugger'. However, when one appreciates those origins one can see how well suited the term is for use by Americans to differentiate Association Football from their own form of football. Mind you, they've been using the term 'soccer' for as long as I can recall, so I'm surprised people are still getting used to it.

Elaine and Barry # 17, 19, reminds me of the player new to Australia saying how happy he was that the coach promised to pull him off at half time. In England he said, "we only get an Orange". boom boom.

I thought we were just slow in trying to sign players, it looks like we are balancing it out by taking a age in selling Yobo. It wont suprise me if the Yobo deal is completed just as Moyes main transfer target is being unveiled by Sunderland or Wolves.

Apparently Yobo is going to refuse to train at Everton to force his move through... Joey, you refused to play for us when fit so no-one'll notice the difference.

Karl #23, don't hold your breath! We all know Moyesie and transfers, Target A gets sold to Club B, we have no Target B so that'll be that.

We have got Eric Deir though... ho hum; poor kid'll probably end up at Tranmere on loan from being on loan from us. As I've said before on another post, if 2 or 3 of the kids can push on this season then we will have to accept them as new signings.

Dennis #18: I was just yanking James's (#8) chain. Of course I am familiar with the term 'soccer' and can see why Americans use it. But as an American he should know that three matches from the Gold Cup played in the USA last weeks are under investigation on suspicions of match fixing. It's not a European thing, I don't feel match fixing is 'routine news' here in Europe. Or am I being naive?

Just our luck if Joey Yobo is brought in as part of this investigation. Hopefully he is clear and we can sell him somewhere else, Fenerbahce won't know if they are still in the First Division or not, so won't pay right now.